Power Dense Data Centers Seek Thermal Controls

Explore Data Center Knowledge (May 3 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing , Servers

...nters. Improving efficiencies in this area has a significant impact on the overall operating costs. Microsoft wanted to find out how much money can be saved by raising the cooling set point in the data center.......ractices are part of your thermal controls’ planning. Industry Perspectives is a content channel at Data Center Knowledge highlighting thought leadership in the data center arena. See our guidelines and submission process... (Read Full Article)

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Apple’s fuel cells will be powered by landfills

Explore GigaOM (Apr 30 2012) Construction , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell

... will get the biogas — which is methane from decomposing organic material — from landfills (hat tip Data Center Knowledge). Apple will actually use “Directed Biogas,” meaning that the biogas from the landfills will be cle......lso being stopped from being released into the atmosphere in this process. Beyond Apple, Google and Microsoft are also interested in biogas projects. Biogas is still a very small source of power in the U.S ... (Read Full Article)

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Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of April 20

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Apr 21 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

For your weekend reading, here’s a recap of five noteworthy stories that appeared on Data Center Knowledge this past week. Enjoy! Apple: Greenpeace’s Cloud Math is Busted – Apple says it will use 20 megawat......treatment plant or landfill, the company said Wednesday. The project will be the first step towards Microsoft’s goal of deploying “data plants” where modular data centers will be powered by renewable energy. C... (Read Full Article)

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Cloud's dirty laundry to be aired by Greenpeace

Explore crn.com.au (Apr 18 2012) Construction , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell

...ice providers fare The report looks at Amazon Web Services, Apple, Dell, Facebook, Google, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Rackspace, Salesforce, Akamai, Twitter and Yahoo. Google ranked high in Greenpeace’s overv......hich will each be the largest of their kind in the country,” Apple said in a statement published by Data Center Knowledge. (Read Full Article)

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Microsoft ‘Data Plants’ to Combine Servers & Power

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Apr 16 2012) Construction , Wind , Cloud Computing , Servers

Microsoft is planning to bring together data centers and renewable power generation, and will announce detail......l be published this week. Belady discussed his vision for data plants last May in an interview with Data Center Knowledge, and in a subsequent blog post titled “The Disappearing Data Center.” A key goal is to reduce the e... (Read Full Article)

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Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of April 14

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Apr 14 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

For your weekend reading, here’s a recap of five noteworthy stories that appeared on Data Center Knowledge this past week. Enjoy! Microsoft to Build Cloud Data Center in Wyoming – Microsoft will build a new data center near Cheyenne, Wyoming, with an initial expected investment of at leas... (Read Full Article)

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Another Perspective on Solar at Data Centers

Explore Renewable Energy World (Mar 29 2012) Construction , Solar

...g tool? Two weeks ago, James Hamilton of Amazon Web Services and a former data center architect for Microsoft posted a blog highlighting his reservation for large solar farms at data centers, noting “I just ca......olar. Another common criticism is that solar requires a lot of space. According to Rich Miller from Data Center Knowledge, it takes about seven acres of solar panels to generate one megawatt of electricity ... (Read Full Article)

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Three Vs of Big Data: Volume, Velocity, Variety

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Mar 8 2012) Data Center Outages , Cloud Computing

...eland, a transistor failure caused a power outage at major cloud computing data hubs for Amazon and Microsoft – what followed was a series of failures that resulted in partial corruption of the data base and t......ries. It’s an exciting time to be a part of Big Data. Industry Perspectives is a content channel at Data Center Knowledge highlighting thought leadership in the data center arena. See our guidelines ... (Read Full Article)

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Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of Feb. 24th

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 25 2012) Construction , Fuel Cell , Solar , Cloud Computing

...leen Miller February 25th, 2012 + + Tweet + + + Hot aisle containment systems house servers inside Microsoft's data center in Dublin, which is being expanded by 13 megawatts. (Photo: Microsoft) For your weekend reading, here’s a recap of five noteworthy stories that appeared on Data Center Knowledge this past week. Enjoy! Apple Confirms Plans for Oregon Data Center – Apple has bought 160 acres of ... (Read Full Article)

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Rackspace Adds Private Edition Cloud, Acquires SharePoint911

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 17 2012) Cloud Computing

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Beyond Servers: Is Your Data Center Truly Virtualized?

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 1 2012) Cloud Computing , Servers , Storage

...ly and closely for years with server virtualization software providers – such as VMware, Citrix and Microsoft — to seamlessly link storage systems with highly virtualized server environments. Through these eff......that once went hand-in-hand with outdated approaches. Industry Perspectives is a content channel at Data Center Knowledge highlighting thought leadership in the data center arena. See our guidelines and submission proces... (Read Full Article)

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Apple Hires Away Yahoo Data Center Chief

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Oct 23 2011) Cloud Computing

...le, a company better known for its consumer electronics activity. The company reportedly hired away Microsoft data center head Kevin Timmons in April of this year, though last week, Data Center Knowledge reported that Timmons had joined CyrusOne as CTO, with not much indication of any time spent at App... (Read Full Article)

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Microsoft Data Center Design Evolves In Iowa

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Oct 17 2011) Construction , Power and Cooling

... on how the design of the second phase in West Des Moines will differ from the first phase, or Microsoft’s other modular facilities. In May Belady told Data Center Knowledge that Microsoft is already developing new facilities optimized for this vision of cloud data centers as “data utili... (Read Full Article)

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IT Lessons Learned from Hurricanes

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Aug 25 2011)

...rtificate for data removal from the vendor Test your Disaster Recovery Plan in Advance According to Microsoft, nearly 75 percent of organization that test their tape backups found backup failures, so it’s crit......answers and references should be taken off your list. Industry Perspectives is a content channel at Data Center Knowledge highlighting thought leadership in the data center arena. See our guidelines and submission proces... (Read Full Article)

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i/o’s Modular Data Centers Roll into New Jersey

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Aug 2 2011) Construction , Cloud Computing

...rn reduces the up-front capital investment to bring a facility online. An early example of this was Microsoft’s lightweight “tractor shed” design for its modular data center in Quincy, Washington, which featur......t economics than its competitors. “New Jersey is already successful for us,” Slessman recently told Data Center Knowledge. “My investment is incremental. I’ve already covered my fixed costs, and I only build if I have a ... (Read Full Article)

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Microsoft: The Cloud is the ‘Utility of the Future’

Explore Data Center Knowledge (May 26 2011) Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing

... center in Quincy, Washington, which uses a lightweight structure and modular data centers. (Photo: Microsoft Corp.) When it comes to data center design, Christian Belady isn’t afraid to shake things up. Back in 20......and deploys its data centers? Belady isn’t ready to say just yet. But in a recent conversation with Data Center Knowledge, Belady discussed several broad themes that are in the mix as he ponders ... (Read Full Article)

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Microsoft Reveals its Specialty Servers, Racks

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Apr 25 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

...n working with server vendors (OEMs) to develop specialized designs based on specs developed by the Microsoft server team. He recently discussed these designs with Data Center Knowledge. Over the past three years, Microsoft has openly shared information at industry conferences about its data center modules, known as IT-PA... (Read Full Article)

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Energy Efficiency Guide: Data Center Temperature

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Mar 10 2011) Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing , Servers

...Even a data center user in the Middle East and eBay in Phoenix go without chillers. Both Google and Microsoft operate facilities without chillers, using fresh air cooling. Guest columnists at Data Center Knowledge have weighed in on the appropriate management of temperature in the data center. Jason Friedler of ... (Read Full Article)

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Marquee Tenants Expand With DuPont Fabros

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 10 2011) Cloud Computing

...on major social networks. Facebook has leased additional space over the past quarter, vaulting past Microsoft to become DFT’s second-largest tenant after Yahoo. ‘Incubator’ Effect Seen DuPont Fabros President ......e consolidation.” SHARE THIS STORY: Tweets that mention Marquee Tenants Expand With DuPont Fabros « Data Center Knowledge -- Topsy.com Posted February 10th, 2011 This post was mentioned on Twitter by datacenter and Datac... (Read Full Article)

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Microsoft Starts Building Iowa Data Center

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jan 10 2011) Construction

Now that Microsoft has unveiled its new data center in Washington state, the company is ready to move ahead with its l......said the modular design will vary at each new facility. “We’re continually evolving,” Timmons told Data Center Knowledge. “The one thing they’ll all have in common is the modular aspect, but the design will differ by lo... (Read Full Article)

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Best Container/modular Data Center approach 2010? SGI's Ice Cube is one choice

Explore greenm3.com (Dec 13 2010) Construction , Container

... DataCenterKnowledge has a post on SGI's latest ICE Cube modular data center at Gartner DC LV 2010. Data Center Knowledge recently got a detailed video tour of the retooled SGI ICE Cube modular data center, which features......working on this container stuff for a while.  Here is a video of  Patrick presenting in Nov 2009 at Microsoft's PDC. http://tv.devexpress.com/#PDC09AzureBox Patrick Yantz shows a shipping ... (Read Full Article)

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A Vision for the Modular Enterprise

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Aug 2 2010) Construction , Solar , Cloud Computing

... forefront of a fundamental shift in the way enterprise companies will buy and deploy data centers. Data Center Knowledge got an early look at i/o Anywhere. * A Vision for the Modular Enterprise * A Vision for the Modular......y-integrated data center. Early container implementations have focused on cloud data centers (as at Microsoft), remote IT requirements or temporary data center capacity. i/o Data Centers is notable for its com... (Read Full Article)

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Google Leads Criticism Of Green Data Centre Rules

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Apr 16 2010) Servers

...by Google, who claim to represent most of the world’s most advanced data centre operators. Google, Microsoft and Nokia have all signed a blog post, which complains that a bid to extend a building efficiency s......h the total power used by the data centre. ASHRAE has defended its standard in an email sent to the Data Center Knowledge site, which points out that the standard actually includes an ... (Read Full Article)

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How Digitization Drives Energy Efficiency

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Dec 10 2009) Carbon Footprint , Emissions

...ation has been quantified by a number of prominent corporations and research institutions including Microsoft, Intel, Lawrence Berkley Labs and Stanford University. + A recent paper by Dr. Jonathan Koomey, se......ndation for a more energy efficient enterprise. Industry Perspectives is a new content channel at Data Center Knowledge highlighting thought leadership in the data center arena. See our guidelines and submission pro... (Read Full Article)

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